The Banjo According to John Hartford: Licks, Ideas and Music, Vol. 2

"The talented banjo player John Hartford returns once more to share some of his personal tricks for enhancing banjo songs. Students are taught how to do Hartford's famous ""slide-whistle"" lick and his ""fiddle-style"" melodic licks. He also discusses the best ways to use a metronome and a tape recorder while practicing and the most basic aspects of chromatic scales. Licks based on diminished and augmented chords are demonstrated, as well as banjo back-up licks and ""pushing the beat."" To illustrate some of these techniques, Hartford plays ""Sally Goodin,"" ""Old Time River Man,"" ""Your Tax Dollars at Work,"" and ""Foggy Mountain Landscape."""